Wow... my grade school didn't even have air conditioning. We had to open all the windows and sometimes turn off some of the lights in June and September.
This was also the supported way on other OSes, including most *nix all the way up to the 1990s, and OpenVMS. This is simply because they didn't include a defragger. Defrag existed, but since third-party software is generally out of scope for OS documentation it is usually excluded.
What an awful article. I hope for these companies' sake that their comments come from clueless PHBs with no real influence on the companies' direction. We have one representative claiming that Linux and Windows 2000 don't run any "background processes". We have the same guy claim that their SSDs will wear out faster on Win98 because it doesn't support load-leveling, which is absurd because this function is performed on the hardware itself and is transparent to the OS. Then a guy from Micron says that XP is slow with SSDs because it doesn't "align" the data in 4K blocks, which is dependent on how a disk is formatted and generally false, because the default cluster size for NTFS in XP is 4K. It would likely only be otherwise if an NTFS partition was converted from FAT, which usually results in 512 byte clusters.
You really think lawyers and dentists and computer programmers work harder than truck drivers and construction workers and plumbers and career waitresses? It's easy to think so, if you've never worked a shit job.
You don't know me, so I'll help you by pointing out that I planted on a farm, performed menial tasks for a contractor, stocked shelves, and worked a cash register. Those run the gamut from "shit" to "merely dull".
Now that I've established my credentials, I'll point out that all of the jobs you listed in group A all require two to eight years of education and training to perform. That's unpaid time. Some of the jobs in group B require minimal training on the order of days or mere hours, usually while being paid. Spending two to eight years and thousands of dollars to pursue a career is taking on a burden of risk and is analogous to the apprenticeship and journeymanship of blue-collar skilled laborers such as electricians and plumbers... incidentally, those type of jobs in group B are also paid well because they worked hard and assumed risk in their careers, just somewhat less than in group A.
In a civilized country, if you have more, you should pay more.
Suppose we have a flat tax of 20%. I earn $58,000. Ignoring any deductions, I would pay $11,600 in taxes. Joe worker makes $30,000. He pays $6,000. Is this less than $11,600? A graduated tax is not a fair tax, and calling it that does not make it so. Just admit that you want government controlled redistribution of wealth and then we can confer truthfully.
Those people take those new paychecks to the grocery store, Wally-World, and even local establshments such as ice-cream parlors and pizza restaurants to give their kids a treat.
Are you kidding? Pizza places and ice cream parlors will be outlawed in the New World Order (people are too fat), Wal-Mart will be seized for "windfall profits", and grocery stores will have 137 people lined up to buy the last roll of toilet paper.
You do realize that your scenario is totally bogus, right? People earning 100K don't pay 75% in taxes, so of course they wouldn't want to earn 25K with no taxes. The reason conservatives and libertarians oppose graduated taxes is because most people who are "rich" had to work hard to get it, so acting as if they had it handed to them is ignorant. They're also the ones handing out BILLIONS to charities every year-- which is the right way to "redistribute wealth."
Many roads would have higher speed limits than they do from this. The federal government does not directly impose a top speed limit, but they do refuse federal funding for roads if a state raises the limit past 65 (I think 65?)
MS claims the Xbox 360 OS was built from the ground-up. Your post is the first I ever heard of claiming that it's an NT PPC kernel. Assuming a version of Win2K was used in the Xbox, downgrading to NT 4 in the 360 merely to reuse PPC code would be ridiculous. Building an advanced console around an ancient kernel would certainly be harder than porting the existing Xbox OS, and probably harder than building one from scratch. The NT kernel couldn't even take advantage of the Xbox 360's multicore CPU, making it useless. It would be a lazy exercise in futility that would end in failure.
I'm not even a real programmer, and I understand this.
So, it is not just anti-government things. In this case the book was a very poor workbook that intended to teach English though watching movies written by a total crank.
Its title was, "Learning to speak American, the Michael Moore Way."
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Wow... my grade school didn't even have air conditioning. We had to open all the windows and sometimes turn off some of the lights in June and September.
Cheer up! President Obama will bring all the change and electrolytes you'll ever need!
But this is NEW JERSEY... we're talking a lot of Superfund sites there.*
* former NJ resident-- send your haughty retorts elsewhere
You still run web services on OS/2? Nifty :-)
This was also the supported way on other OSes, including most *nix all the way up to the 1990s, and OpenVMS. This is simply because they didn't include a defragger. Defrag existed, but since third-party software is generally out of scope for OS documentation it is usually excluded.
I think you mean "head", not "needle", unless we're talking about 33 RPM vinyl discs here.
You have little knowledge of Windows or the NTFS. Your comment regarding its tendency to fragment is proof of that.
What an awful article. I hope for these companies' sake that their comments come from clueless PHBs with no real influence on the companies' direction. We have one representative claiming that Linux and Windows 2000 don't run any "background processes". We have the same guy claim that their SSDs will wear out faster on Win98 because it doesn't support load-leveling, which is absurd because this function is performed on the hardware itself and is transparent to the OS. Then a guy from Micron says that XP is slow with SSDs because it doesn't "align" the data in 4K blocks, which is dependent on how a disk is formatted and generally false, because the default cluster size for NTFS in XP is 4K. It would likely only be otherwise if an NTFS partition was converted from FAT, which usually results in 512 byte clusters.
"Recycled coffee?" Where I come from, that's called "pee pee."
You don't know me, so I'll help you by pointing out that I planted on a farm, performed menial tasks for a contractor, stocked shelves, and worked a cash register. Those run the gamut from "shit" to "merely dull".
Now that I've established my credentials, I'll point out that all of the jobs you listed in group A all require two to eight years of education and training to perform. That's unpaid time. Some of the jobs in group B require minimal training on the order of days or mere hours, usually while being paid. Spending two to eight years and thousands of dollars to pursue a career is taking on a burden of risk and is analogous to the apprenticeship and journeymanship of blue-collar skilled laborers such as electricians and plumbers... incidentally, those type of jobs in group B are also paid well because they worked hard and assumed risk in their careers, just somewhat less than in group A.
Suppose we have a flat tax of 20%. I earn $58,000. Ignoring any deductions, I would pay $11,600 in taxes. Joe worker makes $30,000. He pays $6,000. Is this less than $11,600? A graduated tax is not a fair tax, and calling it that does not make it so. Just admit that you want government controlled redistribution of wealth and then we can confer truthfully.
Well, who wants to sleep in a room with half a dozen other people snoring!
Are you kidding? Pizza places and ice cream parlors will be outlawed in the New World Order (people are too fat), Wal-Mart will be seized for "windfall profits", and grocery stores will have 137 people lined up to buy the last roll of toilet paper.
You do realize that your scenario is totally bogus, right? People earning 100K don't pay 75% in taxes, so of course they wouldn't want to earn 25K with no taxes. The reason conservatives and libertarians oppose graduated taxes is because most people who are "rich" had to work hard to get it, so acting as if they had it handed to them is ignorant. They're also the ones handing out BILLIONS to charities every year-- which is the right way to "redistribute wealth."
American dissenters still alive and free MILLIONS, Chinese dissenters still alive and free 0.
I propose that henceforth, placing one's feet upon a piece of furniture be called "the Indian Moon."
Oops, make that "acting foolishly," and also change "NSA" to "my school Principal."
Thanks the heads-up, President Hu!
Sounds like he was probably scanning their LAN, not their internet face.
This is false. There is no longer a federal speed limit.
MS claims the Xbox 360 OS was built from the ground-up. Your post is the first I ever heard of claiming that it's an NT PPC kernel. Assuming a version of Win2K was used in the Xbox, downgrading to NT 4 in the 360 merely to reuse PPC code would be ridiculous. Building an advanced console around an ancient kernel would certainly be harder than porting the existing Xbox OS, and probably harder than building one from scratch. The NT kernel couldn't even take advantage of the Xbox 360's multicore CPU, making it useless. It would be a lazy exercise in futility that would end in failure.
I'm not even a real programmer, and I understand this.
In Soviet Russia, meme enfeebles YOU!
Its title was, "Learning to speak American, the Michael Moore Way."
Don't forget this one.
To be fair, they have deprived you of some of yours.
... but Major Dick owns them both.